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Logic and Epistemology

Tibetan-preserved Buddhist logic and epistemology texts outside the major author collections.

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Texts

Child Entry into Logic — JinaA complete beginner's primer to Buddhist epistemology by the master Jina, covering direct perception, self-directed inference, and other-directed inference. A new English translation from Classical Tibetan.Establishing the Nature of Cause and Effect — JnanasrimitraJnanasrimitra's compact treatise proving that causation is established through direct perception and non-apprehension alone — one of the last great works of Indian Buddhist epistemology before the destruction of Vikramasila. A new English translation.The Application of Reasoning — RatnavajraRatnavajra's eight-verse argument for the luminous, non-conceptual nature of reality — a Kashmiri scholar's compressed synthesis of Yogācāra and Madhyamaka thought, arriving at the conclusion that when conceptual thought is seen to be without essence, purity and wisdom are liberation itself. An earlier English translation exists (named in the colophon).